Roy Choi

But just there are... Food served out of igloos or something.

It's not like a commoditized in terms of like a business.

That's exactly what I was going to touch on is it all comes down to culture, I think.

I think it comes down to culture.

This is how we express our culture.

So you have to go back to who really started it.

It's the Latino culture.

It's the Mexican taco trucks of the 50s and 60s that bled into Venice Beach and the hot dog stands of Venice Beach and the carts and the fruit carts and the fruteros.

And then

And then that leads into the working class neighborhoods of Los Angeles County and then the construction boom.

We had a big construction boom here in the 80s.

And so all those buildings you see kind of like in downtown and stuff, they're

It's not like they were all built, but a lot of them were built.

We didn't have a huge skyline back then.

But then they were all being built kind of around the same time.

And so that mobilized a whole need for catering trucks.

Because as you've probably experienced here in this city, we're a little bit different than a lot of other cities.

not like a metro city where you can just walk down and go to the bodega oh it's the most spread out nightmare place spread out it's like so many cities in one so many cities in one let's say you're working uh for three months as an iron worker construction worker at the spot but that your work area may be in a home or in a building that has nothing to eat around you you know

And you're there and you got like 30 minutes that you can come down and eat and go back up.

That's where the truck culture comes into play.